You can develop strict XHTML 1.1 pages that get a W3C green tick and allow you to attach one of these to your webpage:[url]<a href="http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=referer"><img style="border:0;width:88px;height:31px" src="http://www.w3.org/Icons/valid-xhtml11" alt="Valid XHTML 1.1" /></a>[/url]

All the usual caveats and disclaimers go with it. It's free software; worth what you pay for it.

Update: beta version of XML template to match Cumulus 1.8.9 build 904 beta webtags. This is not fully tested.

xmltemplate.1.9.zip

Update: new version of XML template to match Cumulus 1.9.2 build 1018 webtags. (I thought it was about time - I've not been here for a while!)

xmltemplate.1.12.zip

Update 1.2: I noticed that on occasion the 'first pass' did not always fully populate the web page, leaving some fields empty until after the first update period. This seemed to be a problem only affecting IE. Version 1.2 smb_ajax.js fixes this - see the comment section in the script if you are curious. Now tested with IE7, IE8, Firefox3 and Symbian

Update 1.3: Fixes an infrequently occuring error when the XML file was being read by the browser at the same time it was being updated by the server. Also tidied up the inner loop to make things a bit more efficient (you can't tell from the client side though)

smb_ajax.1.3.zip

If you have not downloaded any of these files you should download ALL of them to get the full kit. Otherwise, just download the updates to what you already have...

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I noticed that if you left the web-page open for a long time (hours and hours) there would eventually be an occasion when the client was reading the XML file at the same time the server was updating it. This was causing an 'error on page' alert to show up. I thought this made the page look untidy.

I have posted version 1.3 of the JavaScript to the first post in the thread to fix this problem.

This completes V1 of this little project. There is no V2 planned at present...

Apologies if I'm stating the obvious, but: It doesn't send it automatically, you have to configure it as one of the 'extra' files. If you've done that and it isn't uploading, turn on the ftp log and that should show what the problem is.

However, I am getting a XML error every 15 secs and no results. Cumulus.xml is uploaded an the .js file is in place. I might just be tired, though I cannot find any obvious mistakes with the setup. I am running a Windows server and I have a vaugue idea that I might need a plugin or update to get the XML parsing to work. Grateful for any tips and tricks.

I have worked on the templates you have previously released, updated them somewhat and have made them full compliant to the XHTML 1.0 Transitional standard.

I enjoyed working with XML - my first experience.

So far, other than displaying the variables from the XML file (using the <span class="ajax" id="variablename"></span>), I have not been able to transfer the value of XML variables to other variables, probably something that cannot be done in the present setup and with the present JavaScript.

Should you be interested at looking in my results, here is the link:

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